Polish Holocaust

IREK FROM THE UNDERGROUND By: Terese Pencak Schwartz "Irek" was his code name. But most people knew him as Tadeusz Borowski. Only other Polish resistance fighters knew him by his pseudonym, "Irek". As 2nd Lieutenant in...

During World War II, Poland suffered catastrophic human loss under Nazi occupation; below are Polish Holocaust stories and testimonies to give a glimpse of what happened. Of the millions of individuals targeted and killed...

The Young Soapmaker: The Holocaust Testimony of Leonard Lerer What does it take for a teenage boy to survive five different Nazi concentration camps? Beautifully preserved by his wife, Gertie Lerer, The Young Soapmaker is a...

Go back to Courage Under Siege. Warsaw Ghetto Vendor of Bread Dead man lying in street Starving Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Ghetto Typhus quarantine Statue commemorating Janus Korczak. Map of the Warsaw Ghetto< Warsaw Ghetto Photographs and a...